Hello guys, I would like to show you some pictures I taken in 1980 (81?) at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I did all pictures. Stanley Clarke band with Steve, Charles and Simon Philips (ROCKS,PEBBLES AND SAND). The sound of Stanley was very loud and Simon needed a wall of "protection" !!!

Sorry Pierre-yves. Your English is so good I'd forgotten you were in Switzerland. "Hijacking" the thread means causing it to veer off topic. In the Alembic forum, this generally ends up with someone bringing up the subject of motorbikes, then the Belgian contingent will jump in to talk about beer.

Sorry, Pierre-Yves, I don't speak French, but my favorite translation site gives "duly hijacked" as dûment détourné. It means that your thread has been diverted from its original topic. As to bikes and beer, a fair number of us are enthusiastic about beer and motorcycles, and threads have on occassion been steered into discussion of them, so someone will generally slip a mention into a hijacked thread.

ok !! Please guys, have some respect to the stars and concentration on the subject of THIS topic only: Stanley and his Alembic !! ;-) a new page I realse now: http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/amethyste.htmI'm born in Geneva but I live in France near Geneva!

Old#12 Had been sitting on the wall at guitar center in san francisco for about a year or so,so being i hung out in the store often a sales guy asked me to take that old thing off our hands & he'd give me a deal on it so i traded my Jazz Bass along with my Ibanez artist along with $1,500 cash and the rest was History!.....Hal yes that pic was taken at the old Keasar stadium during the Junteenth summer fest 1981

The first bass has PF-5 circuit and early style of horns , so it was made 1973 that I think.

By the way, The factory records #14 was made for Stanly. There is nice photo on show case "Custom basses" section. I don't know Mr. Stanly used or owned it. Anyone knows about it ? are there pictures ?